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The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study
In recent times, the number of criminal incidents involving crossbows in the UK has increased with many incidents resulting in either injuries or fatalities. Whilst the effects of crossbow bolts on the body are well understood, there is a limited understanding on how these projectiles interact with...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7295827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31696312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02171-5 |
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description | In recent times, the number of criminal incidents involving crossbows in the UK has increased with many incidents resulting in either injuries or fatalities. Whilst the effects of crossbow bolts on the body are well understood, there is a limited understanding on how these projectiles interact with the wider environment. One area of particular interest is the interaction between common vehicle side windows and bolts. In this study, the penetrability of two distinct bolts using an off-the-shelve crossbow against a common automotive side window was explored, where velocity loss up to 25 m/s post impact was recorded. All windows failed through radial glass fracture at a rate up to 1600 m/s, whilst bolt damage varied from tip holder decoupling, shaft damage, and traumatic fletching removal. No distinct relationship between bolt type, velocity, and window damage was identified. |
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spelling | pubmed-72958272020-06-19 The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study Critchley, R. Standbridge, K. Peare, A. Int J Legal Med Short Communication In recent times, the number of criminal incidents involving crossbows in the UK has increased with many incidents resulting in either injuries or fatalities. Whilst the effects of crossbow bolts on the body are well understood, there is a limited understanding on how these projectiles interact with the wider environment. One area of particular interest is the interaction between common vehicle side windows and bolts. In this study, the penetrability of two distinct bolts using an off-the-shelve crossbow against a common automotive side window was explored, where velocity loss up to 25 m/s post impact was recorded. All windows failed through radial glass fracture at a rate up to 1600 m/s, whilst bolt damage varied from tip holder decoupling, shaft damage, and traumatic fletching removal. No distinct relationship between bolt type, velocity, and window damage was identified. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019-11-07 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7295827/ /pubmed/31696312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02171-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Critchley, R. Standbridge, K. Peare, A. The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study |
title | The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study |
title_full | The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study |
title_fullStr | The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study |
title_full_unstemmed | The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study |
title_short | The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study |
title_sort | effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7295827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31696312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02171-5 |
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